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Uncle Billy's Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 sticks butter
1/4 C. powdered sugar
1 Tbs. water
2 tsp. vanilla
2 C. flour
1 C. chopped pecans

Powdered sugar for coating.
Directions:
Directions:
Melt butter, add sugar, water and vanilla. Gradually add flour then pecans. Roll into balls. Bake on parchment lined cookie sheet at 300 for 20 minutes. Cool on a rack and then roll in powdered sugar.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
Approx 3 1/2 dozen cookies
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Mom/ Grandma Helen made these cookies every Christmas.
As the story goes, she would make these for the Heinen/Vestal Christmas. These were Uncle Billy's favorite. Uncle Billy (Vestal) was Grandpa Rich's brother and he lived with Aunt Shirley (their sister) and her family. on the south side of Chicago.
Grandma Helen would bring him his own special tin of the cookies. Legend has it that he would hide the tin in his room under the bed and count the cookies to make sure no one would sneak any!

 

 

 

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